- Twitter reaches 200 million active users, grows 42.9% in nine months Twitter has reached 200 million monthly active users - the company announced by tweet earlier today - representing a 42.9% increase in monthly active users since March of this year.
- Twitter begins rollout of archive feature, as promised As promised by Twitter CEO Dick Costolo in September, Twitter is rolling out a feature that will allow its users to download an archive of all their tweets before year's end.
- Twitter's planning to overhaul its Favourite button Twitter is planning to overhaul its Favourite button, instead replacing it with a more 'lightweight' Like or Star button similar to Facebook's own simple acknowledgment or endorsement feature, reports V3.
- 2012 US presidential race will be won and lost on Twitter This year's United States presidential race will be won and lost on Twitter, with Twitter CEO Dick Costolo stating that "2012 is going to be the Twitter election". Costolo made his comments during an interview at the Dive Into Media event organised by All Things D.
- Twitter sees threefold increase in sign-ups following iOS 5 integration Since Twitter became officially integrated into iOS 5 on its release last Wednesday, Twitter has witnessed a threefold increase in sign-ups over the past six days.
- Twitter vows to purge spammers with "predictive" spam technology Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has vowed to counteract spam accounts with "realtime" and "predictive" spam technology that the company is currently working on. In a tweeted response to a spam complaint by Twitter user Peter Kafka, Costolo stated,
- Twitter to launch its own photo-sharing service Twitter will launch its own photo-sharing service later this week if reports from All Things Digital are true. It's understood that Twitter CEO Dick Costolo will announce the service at the D9 conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California tomorrow.